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Quotes by Writer
"Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine."
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"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."
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"Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government."
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"The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language."
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"You can hide memories, suppress them, but you can't erase the history that produced them."
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"I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them."
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"I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining."
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"Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression."
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"There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe."
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"Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time."
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"I compromised my ability to tell my story, at the most basic level."
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"Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them."
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"The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress."
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"There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it."
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"I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am."
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"Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country."
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"I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes."
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"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next."
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"Well, don't tell Steve Niles but I just don't think horror works in comics."
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"Reality is the name we give to our disappointments."
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"All you have to do is wait. Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just watch the drift of things. Make an effort to cast a fair eye on everything. If you do that, you just naturally know what to do. But everyone's always too busy. They're too talented, their schedules are too full. They're too interested in themselves to think about what's fair."
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"We never live; we are always in the expectation of living."
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"I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat."
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"She would give them order. She would create constellations."
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"Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German."
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